Speaking of books
Subtitle: the best things ever said about books and book collecting
By: edited by Rob Kaplan and Harold Rabinowitz.
Contributors: Kaplan, Rob.; Rabinowitz, Harold, 1948-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Books -- Quotations, maxims, etc.; Book collecting -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
Genres: Quotations, maxims, etc.
Description: The love of books, and the desire to speak and write of that love, are as old as books themselves. In fact, they are even older than printed books. "All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books," wrote Richard De Bury in The Philobiblon (The Love of Books), which was completed in 1345, more than a hundred years before Gutenberg printed his first Bible. And in every generation since de Bury's there have been new voices expressing the pleasures they take in books and reading. Speaking of Books contains hundreds of the best of those expressions -- entertaining and thought-provoking quotations about the reading and enjoyment of -- not to mention obsession with -- books. The collection includes examples of bibliophila that range across the centuries and around the globe, from ancient Chinese proverbs to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from the Bible to Woody Allen, from Jane Austen to Mark Twain, and from William Shakespeare to J.D. Salinger. Filled with insight, wisdom, and humor, Speaking of Books will be read with pleasure by; everyone who believes, as Thomas Carlyle did, that "of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things called books." - Jacket flap.

Collects quotations and expressions about books, libraries, reading, and book collecting.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Books in Our Future / ix; title: 1. In Praise of Books/3; title: 2. The Pleasures fBuying and Owning Books /7; title: 3. What to Read / 29; title: 4. The Influence of Books /45; title: 5. Bibliomania / 7; title: 6. The Pleasures of Reading / 67; title: 7. What Books Do-and Don't Do-for Us / 8; title: 8. All Those Books /97; title: 9. How to Read / os; title: 10. Libraries / I3; title: 11. Good Books and Bad /25; title: 12. The Comfort Found in Books /i39; title: 13. Lending and Borrowing Books / i5; title: 14. Books and the Young /i6i; title: 15. What Books Can-and Cannot-Teach Us /i69; title: 16. Authors and Their Readers /83; title: 17. Collectors and Collecting / 95; title: 18. The Book Trade /207; title: 19. The Enemies of Books /217; title: 20. Books Forever! /227; title: Index of Authors / 245.